Table 1 The patient experience and suggestions for improvements
From: Improving the intensive care experience from the perspectives of different stakeholders
Assessing the ICU patient perspective to improve experience |
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1. Explore aspects of the patient experience in the broadest terms |
2. Consider patient factors, environment factors, care & intervention factors |
3. Patient responses preferred to surrogate |
4. Assess the patient experience early in the post ICU phase for recollection of the ICU experiences after excluding delirium |
5. Assess the patient experience later for adverse sequelae (anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder) |
6. Link the aspects of the patient experience back to the quality of ICU care |